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“James” takes Mark Twain’s classic tale and places the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.

A lavish photo book collects images old and new of elaborate estates, manors, chateaus and Schlosses in the European countryside.

In “Jews in the Garden,” the journalist Judy Rakowsky helps a relative uncover the truth of what happened to their family during World War II.

A new collection of her novels and stories is a showcase for a science fiction pioneer.

A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the American Revolution.

In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative.

In Molly McGhee’s debut, “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,” debt-laden citizens are recruited to “audit” others’ dreams — all in the name of productivity.

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law.